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Tweets
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 2 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 2 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 2 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 2 days ago
- Word or two length predictions for social media game-changers over next decade? Me: Goggles, Badges, Social Sensors #gamechangers 2 days ago
- One more on the "higher ed is newspapers" meme. David Brooks: http://t.co/bUsz8sXA 2 days ago
- My students know I am not a fan of Flash. Rare exception: http://t.co/1ElX1Q8E 3 days ago
- More updates...
Archives
Monthly Archives: July 2004
Into the Blogosphere
In case you haven’t already seen in, a colllection of papers called Into the Blogosphere has been launched. Some good stuff in here, and I’m working my way through in bite-sized chunks. The whole group (authors and editors) deserve kudos for a job well done. I actually submitted the AIR paper for this, but it [...]
In which I side with… me!
I’ve been following the conversation between Elijah and Liz with some interest, but with little comment. Since my name is invoked in both laudatory and mildly disparagingly ways, I suppose I ought to respond. Despite disagreeing with much of what both of them have to say, I think the conversation highlights some critical issues. *What’s [...]
My Movies
OK, I managed to avoid that other book-reading meme on this, but I figured I’d go for the movie one, if only to make sure that the jump works.
“Should know better.”
A college student at Boston College was arrested for making a bomb threat outside of a military recruiting office at the end of last month. The nature of the threat. He stood on a crate, with a hood over his head, and wires leading down from his hands, mimicking the photographs of Abu Ghraib torture [...]
Get Kurtz
Steve Kurtz, an artist on the faculty at my university, was detained by the FBI because they thought that his art was dangerous looking. Having utterly failed in its original intent to prosecute him for bioterrorism, they have downgraded the charges to petty larceny and mail fraud. Although I will admit to not having all [...]
Re-linking the discussion